Judge Hands Down 9-year Prison Term For Assault Of 4 Girls

October 22, 1985|By Leslie Kemp of The Sentinel Staff

SANFORD — A man who sexually assaulted four girls in the Altamonte Springs area was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison.

After his prison term, Jean Emile Eischen, 55, must complete 15 years of probation during which he must receive counseling, psychiatric evaluations and not initiate or have any unsupervised contact with any person under the age of 18, ordered Circuit Judge Kenneth M. Leffler.

Eischen pleaded guilty in August to two counts of lewd and lascivious assault upon a child. He also entered ''no contest'' pleas to two additional lewd assault charges and one misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure. In return for the plea, prosecutors dropped seven additional charges.

Eischen was charged with assaulting four girls, most of them ages 8 or 9, during the past four years while he lived in unincorporated Seminole County, west of Altamonte Springs, according to court records.

A priest, an acupuncturist, and Eischen's former employer all requested leniency for Eischen during the Monday sentencing hearing. Eischen's attorney suggested a sentence of long probation with one year in the county jail.

But a member of the Seminole County Guardian Ad Litem's office, assigned to represent the victims, asked Leffler to consider the effect of the abuse on the girls -- one is getting professional counseling and the other three are getting help through their parents and churches, she said. One father doesn't detect any long-term harm to his two daughters, the guardian said, but he is fearful about any permanent effects that might result from Eischen's actions. After imposing the nine-year sentence, Leffler agreed to recommend that prison officials treat Eischen in a sex-offender program.

In another case Monday, an Oviedo man was sentenced to one year in state prison, followed by 14 years of probation for molesting a 14-year-old girl, said Assistant State Attorney Bill Catto.

William Lester Ford Sr., 45, pleaded guilty last month to a lewd and lascivious act upon a child, according to court records. He was arrested after the victim reported in April that she had been fondled, court records show.